Composer's Corner

"There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song.  First, we all sit down.  Then we think about writing a song." -- Paul McCartney

MYSTERY TUNE: Did you recognize Beethoven's popular piano composition "Fur Elise" (c. 1810)  playing on the website?? It is not known for certain exactly who "Elise" was!  Some think the original name may have been "Fur Therese," after a friend and student of Beethoven.               

  Composers Born in January/February/March

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1/27/1756
• Jerome Kern 1/27/1885
• Franz Schubert 1/31/1797
• Philip Glass 1/31/1937
• John Williams 2/8/1932
• George Frederick Handel 2/23/1685
• George Harrison 2/25/1943
• Frederick Chopin 3/1/1810
• Antonio Vivaldi 3/4/1678
• Johann Sebastian Bach 3/21/1685
• Andrew Lloyd Webber 3/22/1948
• Elton John  3/25/1947
• Franz Joseph Haydn 3/31/1732

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